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MARKS SAMUELS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,006, dated October 2, 1894.

- Application filed June 14, 1894:. Serial No. 514,562. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARKS SAMUELS, a citizen of the United States, residing-at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention has for its object to pro vide a folding bed in which by a simple arrangement the flexible bed bottom will be suitably stretched when the bed is opened or unfolded and the invention consists in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is aside elevation of the bed open sectioned along w 00 Fig. 3, the bed being shown in dotted lines as partly open or unfolded. Fig. 2 is a view like Fig. l the bed going closed. Fig. 3 is a section along 'y y The main section of the bed comprises the To the main section is jointed the foot section 2 at 3 so as to fold or swing into the main section when closing. The head section 4is jointed to the foot section at 5. The main section has its side pieces connected by strips or transverse pieces 6, 7, 8 and is usually provided with a cover or top plate 9. In opening and closing the bed the head section moves into and out of engagement with the main section by means of guides or ways 10 and lugs or supports 11. The guides or ways 10 have their mouths orinner ends open and as the head section 4 swings from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 1 first in dotted lines and then in full lines the lugs or supports 11 are carried toward and into the mouths of the ways 10 and along said ways toward their closed or outer ends to the position 'seen in Fig. 1 in full lines. Along the cross piece 6 and cross piece 12 extending therefrom is secured a guiding face or blocks 13 at the rear of main section 1. The free end of head section 4 has friction rollers 14 shown in Fig. 1 as resting against guiding face 13 and as the bed is closed said rollers 14. ride along and move away from guiding face 13 so that when the bedis closed the head section rests with part of its under edge against guide face 13.

The head section at has a cross piece or slat.

curved condition shown in Fig. 2 to'the.

stretched position shown in Fig. .1. The engageinent of lugs 11 with guides 10 will prevent the tension of bottom 16 from swinging the head section 4 about pivot 5 to carry the free or inner end of the head section up or out of the main section, and the bottom 16 remains stretched.

The flexible bottom 16 will support a mattress 19 and bedding as usual and said head and foot sections have slats 20, 21 for supporting springs over which said flexible bottom extends. The foot board 22 can be swung into the foot section when it is to be closed, and the swinging legs 23 can be held in supporting position by brace 24, which when the bed is to be folded can be swung inward as seen in Fig. 2. The bottom of the foot section is advantageously closed by a plank or back 25 terminating in cross piece 26 against which brace 24 can get a hold.

The head section'it is noticed is free from the main section when the bed is closed, and

only comes into engagement with the main section by means of the guides 10 and supports 11 when said supports engage the guides on theopening of the bed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a folding bed comprising a main section, a foot section and a head section, the combination of guides attached to the sides of the main section, a guiding face arranged in the rear of said guides, and lugs or supports secured to the head section and adapted to pass into and out of the guides, said head guiding face, for guiding said lugs into and section being guided by said guiding face, out of said guides as the bed is folded and substantially as described. unfolded, substantially as described.

2. In a folding bed comprising a main sec- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 5 tion, a foot section and a head section, the my hand in the presence of two subscribing I5 combination with guides or ways attached to Witnesses.

the main section, lugs 01' supports attached MARKS SAMUELS. to the head section and adapted to pass in Witnesses: I and out of said guides, afriction roll carried W. O. HAUFF,

10 by the free end of the head section, and a E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

